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At age 10, I first got to know computers by a book from my brother called “C++ for game developers” even though I didn’t have the slightest idea of coding then and the book started out pretty steep with all kinds of things, over two-three years I managed to get through to the last page. After I discovered PHP and web programming for me. It was totally contrary to what C++ had to offer: get things done, easily, quickly and without too much complexity. There I developed my first few complex web 2.0 applications. Already then I realized that I’m somewhat not a loser at this whole programming thing. And let me it tell you: it was a lot of fun! So I decided quite early at the age of 14 to go to a technical high school, that would encourage me to dive deeper into computer science. At the HTL I also learned a lot about how a computers electronic circuits work and why things make sense the way they were designed. Back then I already set my goals high to become a professional in this field. Especially my professors in Highschool encouraged me to shoot for the stars. […]

Sometimes you need to provide a legacy access to various downloads or proxy some requests to a different endpoint, that might not be running in your cluster. One can natively redirect such requests with having to add additional deployments / containers to your Kubernetes cluster. There is a special type of Kubernete’s service object that simply points any traffic to that external DNS name. This isn’t really document all too well but eventually you will find enough issues and pointers to frankenstein a solution together. For anybody else looking on how to do this correctly, here is run down with nginx-ingress-controller:0.19.0 that worked for me. First we create a normal ingress object, that allows us to terminate the SSL and look into the path of the HTTP request and decide if this is a request that is relevant to be proxied. Lets quickly take a look at what is going on here. We first configure our Ingress Controller to use nginx and enable automatic provisioning via our cluster ACME/cert-manager. Then we instruct nginx to rewrite the target URL to add the bucket. This way, we can swap buckets without the user facing URL having to change. (Notice to not include […]

I finally wanted to setup my own kubernetes cluster as everyone I talk to, said its the hottest shit. I’m using three VMs, hosted at Netcup running the latest Debian 9 Stretch build. I’ve installed most basic tools for me and also already set up docker using this amazing ansible role. Make sure to disable any swap you have configured – kubelet will not start otherwise. The documentation on how to install things is pretty good, but I’ve missed some details, that I banged my head on, so I will copy most snippets over for future reference. Keep in mind, that this might have already changed and is no longer working at the time you read this. First install all needed CLI tools on each of the three hosts: apt-get update && apt-get install -y apt-transport-https curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add – cat <<EOF >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list deb http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main EOF apt-get update apt-get install -y kubelet kubeadm kubectl Start the systemd Service for kubelet, our kubernetes manager – also on every node. systemctl enable kubelet && systemctl start kubelet Now the docs are a bit unspecific, but here’s a command to set the correct cgroup on Debian 9. […]

So in the last four months (October 2015 to January 2016) I had the pleasure to work with the team of students at Texas A&M university. I got to experience a whole different culture of studying and learning – a different approach to tackle the issues of the future.

Compared to German universities, Americans have adopted a class like education even in higher education. While we at the TUM have to aggregate and learn most of the material ourselves, students at A&M tend to get the content and materials prepared in form of text books.

My main goal was to work on my bachelor thesis though, where I looked at a new way to develop web applications using Meteor and Angular to integrate wearables into the web-experience.

I’m glad to be part of the amazing community at codementor.io. In the past years I’ve been able to talk and help many different people with a range of problems. Often some hints and good advice was enough to point them in the right direction and I really enjoy teaching other people. Codementor recently approached me and asked me if I could contribute some questions from my experience in the last years to their blog post “25 PHP Interview Questions”. I’m happy they found my suggestions useful and featured me in that article! Hope it helps some developers that are just getting to know the world of PHP and all its hiccups. Don’t forget to check out my profile on codementor!

I’ve been getting random hickups in playback when including a video in a webview on Android Kitkat (4.4.4). So I’ve been on this issue for quite some time now and couldn’t figure out why I was getting these messages in the verbose logcat: 2987-2998/com.xxx W/MediaPlayer﹕ info/warning (703, 38137) 2987-2987/com.xxx I/MediaPlayer﹕ Info (700,595) 2987-2998/com.xxx W/MediaPlayer﹕ info/warning (701, 0) 2987-2998/com.xxx W/MediaPlayer﹕ info/warning (702, 0) Especially the 700 error was what I focused on, cause it made no sense really. I’ve used Handbrake to encode the videos and selected the “android” preset. Unfortunately they’ve set the profile to ‘main’ instead of the suggested ‘baseline’ profile which is recommended. Took me a while to figure this out and including a lot of trial and error =/ Working now, anyways. Read more on the optimal settings here….

When serving files over PHP often people end up using an incorrect implementation which is open to attacks or has really bad performance (especially with big files). Well you shouldn’t reinvent the wheel every time! When you are using Apache in the first place, why do you need to re-implement the feature, that Apache is best at? To avoid having to deal with complicated RFCs for HTTP Ranges and Caching use the Apache Module called xsendfile. Some apt magic and you are up an running: apt-get install libapache2-mod-xsendfile service apache2 restart Then add this to your vhost configuration: XSendFile on XSendFilePath /var/atis/Storage All set! To send a file via. PHP simply do this: header(‘X-Sendfile: ‘ . $file); header(‘Content-Type: ‘ . contentType($file)); header(‘Content-Disposition: inline;’); (Make sure you have a function to determine the contenttype of your file)